The Brawling Potomac Nats

I'm still waiting for someone to provide the definitive account of how a game-ending double-play ball in the ninth inning of a Class A baseball game last week wound up sending two players to the hospital because of brawl-related injuries, one with a concussion "due to a severe blow to the head" and the other with "hairline fractures to the vertebrates in the lower portion of his back." In the meantime, a brief summary.

1) The P-Nats were playing the Winston-Salem Warthogs. According to the P-Nats site: "Tempers had flared earlier in the game as [WS 2B Victor] Mercedes and Brandon Powell exchanged words after Powell was tagged out trying to steal second in the fourth inning of the game." When guys are getting chippy after an unsuccessful stolen base attempt, you know trouble is brewing.

2) The Winston-Salem Journal sets the scene. Top of the ninth, one out, grounder back to the mound, pitcher throws to Mercedes at second, where the runner (Potomac's Matt Rogelstad) is charged with interference. Game over.

3) The paper goes on:

When Mercedes got up, he charged Rogelstad and landed a roundhouse punch. That's when the dugouts and bullpens emptied in a free for all that lasted nearly two minutes. While both teams' managers and coaches were trying to restore order, the police finally stepped in between the teams near second base.

4) Brian Peacock, a Potomac catcher, was coaching first base at the time, according to the Potomac News. He's the one that wound up with the hairline fractures in his back. The Warthogs site says "numerous punches were thrown," and that the brawl lasted more than 10 minutes. There was ominous talk about what might happen when the teams met again this week.

Aren't we all. No You Tube, nobody with the team will talk about what happened, not even the guy that was supposed to be at the game from Potomac. I can You Tube and find a brawl in a junior college game, you mean to tell me NOBODY at this game had a camera of some kind? Nobody can write more than just a general statement on what happened?